(A word of explanation for those not familiar with the concept
of fractal geometry: recent work by Mandelbrot, his colleagues
and students suggests that the mathematical regularities of much
of the natural world are not integer- dimensional, but of dimensionalities
which can be expressed as fractions of whole numbers. So what
is being suggested here is that the synthesizing ego tends to
reduce these fractal spaces to integer-dimensional spaces - commonly
two- or three- dimensional spaces - in order to bring them into
consciousness. This, we suggest, is explained by the geometry
of phenomenological space.)